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Begonia vs. Genus — What's the Difference?

Begonia vs. Genus — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Begonia and Genus

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Begonia

Begonia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Begoniaceae. The genus contains more than 2,000 different plant species.

Genus

Genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family.

Begonia

Any of various tropical or subtropical plants of the genus Begonia, widely cultivated as ornamentals for their usually asymmetrical leaves and brightly colored flowers.

Genus

A principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family, and is denoted by a capitalized Latin name, e.g. Leo.

Begonia

Any plant of the large genus of Begonia.
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Genus

(Biology) A taxonomic category ranking below a family and above a species and designating a group of species that are presumed to be closely related and usually exhibit similar characteristics. In a scientific name, the genus name is capitalized and italicized, for example, Ovis for sheep and related animals.

Begonia

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

Genus

(Logic) A class of objects divided into subordinate species having certain common attributes.

Begonia

Any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes

Genus

A class, group, or kind with common attributes.

Genus

A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
There are only two genera and species of seadragons.

Genus

A taxon at this rank.

Genus

A group with common attributes.

Genus

A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.

Genus

(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

Genus

(music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

Genus

A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.

Genus

An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.

Genus

A general kind of something;
Ignore the genus communism

Genus

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

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